I love finding great clean energy news from my home state of Florida, and even more so from my home city of Sarasota. For some reason, it makes it all seem a little more real, a little more significant, and a little more widespread to me. News from Florida now … [continued]
The U.S. military is undertaking a massive shift away from petroleum and other fossil fuels, and into a new clean energy future that relies on solar power, geothermal power, and other sustainable sources. Much of the activity is focused on large installations at military bases, such as a new solar … [continued]
The U.S. Navy’s Seal Beach facility in California is now home to a new $1.9 million solar parking lot, thanks to funding from the federal Recovery Act.
Operations at the Port of Houston, Texas just got a little greener, thanks to the successful introduction of new plug-in hybrid electric terminal tractors to haul shipping containers around the grounds.
The legendary competition between the branches of the U.S. armed forces has taken on a sustainable twist. Take portable solar power, for example. The Marines just introduced a portable solar power system this spring, and a few weeks later the Air Force kicked in with a portable solar system of … [continued]
Living in the Bay Area, I’m used to the abundance of great green start-ups blazing new trails nearby, whether its Berkeley pioneering PACE, Emeryville where Amarys boils up its Algae, San Francisco where 1BOG is perking in a cool SOMA warehouse, Silicon Valley with all those cleantech businesses, even Fremont … [continued]
Two companies, MIC Electronics and Beltron Telecom Green Energy Systems Ltd (BTGES), have signed an agreement to distribute 330,000 LED lamps in the rural areas of the Indian state of Bihar. The aim is to distribute 10 million lamps in the nest three years. [social_buttons] MIC Electronics already has arrangements with one … [continued]
The enthusiasm is building — we’re just a few months from the U.S. launch of the first electric vehicles aimed at mainstream consumers. Nissan is touting the success of the registration program for its upcoming Leaf EV, boasting 13,000 orders for its vehicles. It is hoped across the industry (and … [continued]
With the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt slated for launch in December, car manufacturers and regulators are scrambling to build intelligent charging systems that help consumers schedule charging during off-peak hours. “Off peak charging” was the mantra of Pedro Pizarro, the executive vice president of power operations for Southern California … [continued]
Palo Alto-based Tesla is the only company currently building real four- wheeled electric cars in the US that can go at freeway speeds (and much faster). Its plan has always been to leverage the initial luxury Roadster into funding increasingly affordable models – and it has hit all its goals … [continued]
